Exactly. You go to prison for two reasons, right? Rehabilitation and punishment. Much more difficult (even impossible in some cases) to rehabilitate an insane person. And what is the point of punishing someone for the rest of their life?

Exactly. You go to prison for two reasons, right? Rehabilitation and punishment. Much more difficult (even impossible in some cases) to rehabilitate an insane person. And what is the point of punishing someone for the rest of their life?

To play the devils advocate; if there are other insane people planning to go on killing sprees, you would think they would rather be put out of their misery than to stay locked up for the rest of their life suffering and going more mad than they already are. Death by execution is the easy way out to someone who is insane

Exactly. You go to prison for two reasons, right? Rehabilitation and punishment. Much more difficult (even impossible in some cases) to rehabilitate an insane person. And what is the point of punishing someone for the rest of their life?

If you're so insane that you cant be held responsible for something like this, what chance is there that you will be rehabilitated to ever function in society again

What is the point of keeping him in a mental hospital for the next 25 years? That way there would be no justice for the families of the victims. There would be a high cost to the taxpayers - having someone in a maximum security institution for the criminally insane for that long is very costly.

I don't think he had his faculties though. He's clearly deranged. I think he was gonna shoot at anyone he could point at.